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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-27
BANK OF MINNESOTA.
Paid Up Capital $500, 900; Surplus 500, 600.
Duluth Wheat.

MN. DAWSON, Pres. RoBT. A. SMITH, V. Pres
ALBERT SCHEPFER, Cashier.
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Quotations of stocks and Bonds.

NEW YORK. March 26.-The following are
the closing prices bid to-day:
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WILKINS g. CLARK.
Wholesale Produce,

Butter, Eggs, Poultry. Consignments solicited.
800 JACKSON STREET ST. PAUL.
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Earnr, gtonre and Bara en-.
Notes.

The English people are many Of th. m
alarmed at the rapid depopulation that
has been going on in many districts,
owing to the increase OF large landed
estates. Small farms are the best for
any community.
Farmers should lend their aid to the
Audubon society, in it's efforts to protect
the birds. The insect-eaters, such as the
robin, bluebird, blackbird, thrush, red
bird and woodpecker, are all friends of
the farmer.
Buttermilk, or sBim-milk thicksned
with middlings, makes an excellent food
for young pigs after they have been
weaned, but they should also have grass.
Avoid feeding much corn. Growing pigs
should not be made fat, but kept in
thrifty, growing condition.
Don't expect the young horse to stand
as much work as the old ones, without
injury. You may not be able to discover
anything wrong at the time, but it will
tell in the end. The constitution of many
young horse that might have been val
liable has been ruined in this way.
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leaves of our elm trees have been ruined
by the elm beetle. Last year 1 MOTTO
ed the cedsr bird devouring the beetles
and larvae. This year our elms are COM
paratively free from the pests. The
leaves are scarcely injured at all, and the
cedar birds are obliged to look close to
find beetle. They hunt over the trees
in small fiocks. They also destroy many
other injurious creatures. This bird
likes cherries. Raise enough for them as
we'll as for yourself and they will pay
you back with interest.
The cstbird and the red-eyed vireo
both eat the unsavory pear-slug. But it
Is not necessary to mention the good SER
vices rendered by our more common
birds, such as the robin, brown thrush,
catbird and bluebird and wren, as all
observing horticulturists are aware OF
the good they do. Our winter birds are
also doing good work. The seed-eating
ones pick up great quantities of the
seeds OF noxious weeds, while our wood
peckers, jays and chicksdees are con.
stantly on the lookout for alternating
insects. Spare and encourage the birds,
both winter and summer, about your
home, grounds and fields.
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cease runuing and it is sal to he a fact
that his orders we're obeyed.
Another King Of Spain came 10 Geneva
to see clock which had been made by
Droz, merchant Of that city. Upon the
clock was seated shepherd, a negro and
a dog. As The hour WAS struck, the shep.
herd played upon the flute and the dog
PLAYED gently at his feet. But when the
king reached forth to touch an apple that
hung from tree, under which the shep-
herd rested, the dog flew at him and
barked so furiously that live dog an
swered him, and the whole party left in
hate. Venturing to return, one Of the
courtiers asked the negro in Spanish
what time it was. There was no reply;
but when the question was repeated in
French, an answer was giveo. This
frightened the courtier who rejoined
his companions and all of them voted
that the clock was the work of the evil
one.
Upon the belfry of Kauthsus, in Cob
lentz, there is the head of giant, beared
and helmeted with brass. The giants
head is known as "the man in the Custom
House," and whenever a countryman
meets a citizen of Coblentz away from
that place, instead of saying "How are
all friends in Cobleutz," he asks: "How
is the man in the Custom House?"
At every stroke of the bell which sounds
the hours upon the clock the mouth Of
the giant opens and shuts with great
force; as if it we're trying to say, in the
words of Longfellow: Time was-Time is
Time is past Universal Thinker.
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WHERE IRVING IS BURIED.

From paper by Clarence Cook, &C.
companied by a portrait, in the May
Century, we quote as follows: 1 confess
l heard not without secret pleasure
that the relic hunters so chip and ham,
mer the stone that marks Irving's grave
as to make it's frequent renewal necessa-
ry. 1t did not seem to me a grievous
wrong, nor In any true sense a profana-
ton of the grave, but rather testimony
to the lovableness of Irving's character
and an evidence of the wide extent of his
fame, that, from filing the circle of the
educated and refined among his country
men, has now come to include that lower
stratum of our common humanity which
has only instructive and, so to speak, me-
chanical ways OF expressing its feelings.
1t would not have been easy to find
a place more in harmony with the asso
Citations that gather about Irvmg's name
as writer than the spot in which he is
buried. Even to. day, with all the chang
es that have been brought about by the
growth of the neighborng settlement,
the spirit of peace and quiet that used to
brood over the region hovers there I'M
disturbed. Irving's own words, in the
Legend of Sleepy Hollow describing
the grave yard, the old church, and the
stream that plays about it's feet, reflect
with the faithfulness of a mirror the
scene as we behold it to day.
Here is the church, small building
with rough sides of the eountry-stone,
surmounted by picturesque roof, and
with an open bell-turret over which still
veers the vane pierced with the initials
of the Vrederick Felypsen who built the
church and endowed it in 1899. In our
rambles about the graveyard we used to
fud the bricks OF hght-eolored clay,
brought from Holland, and on which, so
tradition said, the church had been orig
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
AN ODD ROYAL FAVOR.

A good and authentic story is told of
German Diogenes. When King Freder-
lex William ~ of Prussia visited the
Rhine provinces in 1843, he stopped some
hours at Vessel, in which strongly fortifi-
ed town, as the military commander of
the post informed him, the oldest man in
the monarchy was then living. The king
went to see the oldest of his subjects and
found him, hale and still hearty veteran
OF observation-disclosures six, comfortably seat
ed in an old arm. chair, enjoying his in
eeparable companions short pipe. On
the approach Of the king he rose, and
advanced few steps, but the king made
him sit down, and conversed quite freely
with him, the pipe, however, not leaving
the old mans lips minute. On parting,
the king asked him if he had any wish he
could crafty. mo, Your Majesty" WAS
the reply, 81 thank you, [ have everything
l need in this world" "Have you indeed?
just think moment-we mortals gen.
orally have some wish or other" "Well,
Sire, on second thought L might ask a
favor My physician insists upon my
taking walk every day on the ramparts.
Every time l pass in front of the powder
magazine, the sentry halls me from dis
lance, crying out: Take the pipe out of
your mouth and as / can advance but
slowly, my pipe goes out every time.
Now if Your Majesty will be gracious
enough to give the order that the sentry
shall let me smoke my pipe in peace the
whole OF the way, 1 shall esteem it the
greatest boon of my remaining days."
The order was given, and the old man
enjoyed the privilege for upward of two
years, dying with his pipe in his mouth.
American Register (Paris.)
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MAKE EXCUSE s.

Not for yourself, but for others. So
little is known Of the interior life, even Of
those whose history is thought to be we'll
known, that motives would often justify
what seems like very strange acts.
brother in the church, whose income
was known to be constantly on the in
crease, was condemned because his con-
tributions to the support of the gospel
did not increase, as was thought, proper
tionately. But matters of equal import
aDce with those of the church's interest
were making constant demands upon his
purse, and, as it was In the direction of a
private nature, outsiders thought him
simply close and unwilling to give as he
was able.
A nobleman whose sensitiver ess was
mistaken for hauteur, was anxious to Sc
cure as private secretary a man who
would be likely to think charitably of his
unfortunate manners. While riding one
day he overlook a man who had been
pointed out to him as a very eccentric
though learned person. The noblemap,
in his hunting suit, presented 30 differ
ent an appearance from what he did in
court costume that the gentleman failed
to recognize him when he overlook him,
and began conversation.
" / see," said the nobleman, "we are
riding over the domains of the Earl of
K"
"Yes, so I thought"
"He is said to be a very logged sort of
person"
"Is he, indeed? Do you know the
earlP"
"Yes; 1 know him very well. I'm
sorry to say he is churlish at times"
Then he is man to be respected"
"Why SOP"
of he is churlish only at times, he
must be heroic, as cause of occasional
petulance must be the result OF constant
trial. This must be under control when
he is pleasant"
"But he is distant and naughty be-
Sides"
"You must excuse me, but I should
have to be convinced OF that before I
could accept it as fact"
Then my word is not enough for it?"
"Sir, the word of no one is sufficient
guaranty in attacking the name or fame
of person unknown"
The man, though poor when he enter
ed the earl's grounds was soon raised to
a position OF honor-one Cor which his
early teachings had fully fitted him.
An aged Christian who always would
find excuses for every one, no matter how
glsring the fault, was once told of the
shameful misdeeds of a protesting Chris
tian, the account being concluded with
the -fds, you surely cannot make ex-
cuses for such conduct as thst?"
Every WELL" was the reply; "then 1
shall surely leave it to God to condemn
him."
Make excuses whenever you can; when
that is impossible, initiate the example of
this aged saint; leave condemnation to
God.-Golden Rule.
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nslly bunt, or which had, at any rate,
been largely used in its construction.
"The church was seldom used, except
in the summer time. On communion
Sundays the handsome seventeenth CEN
fury Jacobean table of oak brought from
Holland, where plenty like it may still
be found, was set out, as it is to-day,
with the plain vessels of silver presented
by Queen Anne as the formula goes,
that used to please the childish taste for
things that had about them the flavor of
old days.
"The same budding taste for antiqui-
ties led me and some of my schoolm ates
to the old graveyard, where we hunted
up the Oldest tombstones, scraping off
the moss and lichens to decipher the
names and dates, and enjoying many a
laugh over their carved ornaments,
scrolls, and cockle-shells, and sturdy
dew-lapped, Dutch cherubs, with their
stumpy little wings scored like checker
boards for plumage. Many of these
grave stones were said to have been
imported from Holland by the early set
tiers, like the bricks of which the church
was built, the table in the church, and
much of the furniture to be found in the
farm houses Of the countryside, chairs
and tables, cupboards, and even looking
glasses. The carvings, memorial verses,
and Scripture-texts upon these tomb
stones were cut by the more skillful
workmen over seas, and the names and
dates we're filled in here at home as occa-
sion called"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
The Home Circle.
BITTER SWEET.

A thrush sat singing unto the sweet May
A rollicking, rythmical roundelay:
He sang of his love. so constant and true;
But May had many bright love RS TO WOO;
Her Apple trees burst into snowy bloom,
Her beautiful blossoms lent sweet perfume,
Her breezes blew balmy all the day long,
And she needed not the thrush's gay song.
The bird told his love, again and again,
In exquisite measure and sweet refrain,
Till seeking the shade of the Hawthorn wide,
Sang sweetly of love, till for love he died.
Then May, the tricksy, compassionate sprite.
Stopped all her dances and dreams of delight,
Drew sackcoth of clouds across her sweet
face,
Dalied no more in the breeze's embrace,
Wept out her sorrow in bright crystal show
ers,
Scattered no smiles through the mist-woven
hours,
Made her low moan all the dew-laden night,
Mourned her lost lover in sorrowful plight.
Sighed she so gently, and sighed e so low,
because Thorns.ever with Roses must go, -
Because Joy ever with sorrow must meet, "
81 set as loves symbol, the Bitter-sweet."
STOPPING she left on the bright moss a trace;
dainty green vine sprang up in its place;
1t clamber'd far over the Hawthorn trees.
1t flung all it's lissome arms to the breeze,
1t lifted it's leaves to the morning light,
And closer its fingers were turn'd each
night;
But when the summers bright blossoms
were fed,
And the forest leaves we're withered and
dead,
Lo, all the vine with bright berries was hung,
AS though, in wild SPORT the fairies had flung
Handouts of rubies, around them, to shine
Brighter than blooms on the wild swaying
vinel
If, inlife's May-time, some sorrow may
come,
Though wild birds MARBLE, and honey bees
hum,
So, when our PLEASURES, like dead leaves,
lie low,
Life a late beauty, love-planted, may show.
-Vfck's Magazine.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
IRREPREssIsLE RAo-wEED.

Rag weed has become great nuisance
in all newly-seeded land. 1t is small when
the grain harvest is taken off, though
where the grain is thin it is often cropped
when the reaper is not set high to escape
it. just as soon IS the wheat crop is re-
moved, rag-weed usurps possession of the
soil, shading and checking the compare
lively thin growth of clover. This is es-
pecislly true il clover seed has been sown
late, and on land infested with rag weed
it is good reason for sowing clover early,
SO as to give it an even start. The rag
weed begins about as soon as frost is we'll
out of the ground. Many good farmers
wait two or three weeks after harvest,
and then with a mower cut off the rag
weed and clover, afterward raking them
both together, and drawing off. If this is
done, and the clover seed has been sown
as thickly as it should be, not less than
six or eight quarts per acre, the clover
will usually take the lead. The rag-weed
is an annual, dying at the approach of
cold weather, and the new crop next
spring can make no headway against the
year-old clover. In fact, little rag weed
will start to grow, except in places where
the clover sod is disturbed by stock or
wagons passing over it. The seed appar-
emily needs fresh stirring of the soil to
make it terminate freely. = american
CultiUdtor.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
CURIOUS CLOCKS.

When the Emperor Charles ", Of
Spain, retired to the monastery OF st.
Yuste. he took with him TorrianO, his
clock maker, in order to while away the
time by constructing the movements Of
clocks. So wonderful we're some of the
pieces OF work which they made that the
monks could not believe any one except
the devil had a hand in them until the
machinery was shown them by the ex-
emperor. 1t was ordered by Charles that
when he should die all the clocks should
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
FACTS ABOUT FANS.
'oint lace fans are sold for $3.50.

Point lace fans are sold for $3.50.
Gauze fans are all the rage this season.
There is still good trade in Japanese
fans for decorative purposes.
In Shakespeare's day no one thought
of going abroad without fan.
The palm leaf fans come principally
from Yokohama. The satin palm sells
for five cents.
The small Dutch ivory fan was beau
tifully painted by one of the masters of
the Low Countries.
The best quality OF Japanese fans are
made OF rice paper, or parchment covered
with silk gauze.
In the hand of the Spanish beauty the
fan is made to express love, hope, dis
dain, anger and other emotions.
The German fan possesses a marked
nationality, with its painted ivory stick
sometimes ingeniously carved a corbeiHe.
The Indian fan of the last century was
often finely painted after some myth
illogical or sacred subject of one of their
great masters.
The dagger fan" of China Is an ele-
gaut imitation in laquer of the common
folding fan, but in reality is the shield Of
a deadly blade.
AT the time of the missionary riots in
Pekin IN 1873, popular ill feeling was ex-
cited against the missionaries by inham-
matory pictures on fans.
Kan 81 was the first lady who carried a
fan. She lived in ages which are past and
for the most part forgotten, and she was
the daughter OF a Chinese mandarin.
Who ever saw a mandarin, even on tea
chest, without fan; and there are fans
of all sorts for everybody. The Japan
ese waves his fan at You when he meets
you, by way of greeting, and the beggar
who solicits for aims has the exceedingly
small coin made on purpose" for char
ity presented to him on the tip OF the fan.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05

THE FUNERAL OF MISS MULOCH.
The funeral of Mrs. Craik, best known
as Miss Muloch, took place Oct Is,
Her remains rest in corner angle of
the Keystone Churchyard, and not far
from the grave of Darwin. When the
family Col tege left the pretty villa where
she had so long lived with her husband,
there was brilliant sunshine, but when
the bier, borre upon the shoulders of
six gentlemen friends of the family, en-.
tered the old-fashioned church, shower
OF rain fell, to be again followed by gen.
ial sunshine. The grave presented
picturesque appearance, its sides and
bottom being in pure white chalky soil,
looking like a piece of sculpture, and sur
rounded with exquisite flowers, from
wreaths sent by order of the Queen and
from Lord Tennyson and other floral de-
signs sent by relatives and friends, to
modest gifts of wild flowers from Sun
day school children and rural neighbore
There was large attendance. Among
the mouruers were the brothers Macmil-
Ian and the families of John Morley, the
statesman and author; Holman HUT, r
A., and wife; Sir George Grove the great
musical critic; J. Norman Locky or, the
poet; Henry Oraik,C B., land family; Fred
erick Greenwood, the journalist; and Mary
Anderson, who placed upon the coffin a
hoc rat ~ rso.k II
forget Mrs. Crsik's adopted daughter,
whose bans were only read in church
last Sunday in the presence of Mrs.
Craik. During hedgeside walk, years
ago, the authoress found babe that had
been abandoned. Ite innocent smiles
and coquettish ways Immediately won
the heart Of her future mother, who adopt
ed and reared her.
The village choir, as the coffin was
lowered, sang hymn, which it was said
Miss Muloch had written, one verse of
which l send, is as follows:
Earth to earth and dust to dust,
Calmly now Thy words we say,
Left behind we wait in trust
For the resurrection day;
Father, in Thy gracious keeping,
Leave we now Thy servant sleeping.
1t is learned concerning the circum-
stances of her death that DIR. Phillips, of
Bromley, village adjacent to Shortlands,
where she lived, had been in attendance
on Mrs. Craik for some time, though her
health had not been so bad as to occa-
sion serious concern to her friends. But
there is reason to believe that she her
self suspected an affection Of the heart.
About quarter to Wednesday after
noon last she was taken suddenly ill in
her bedroom and fell down to die in a
few minutes.
The vicar in a brief address seems to
have well summed up Mrs. Craik's men,
tai characteristics when he said: ITO ex-
quisite charm of style, ingenuity OF plot,
and original power OF humor and pathos
she added keen insight into the work
ings of the human heart and quick
conception of high ideas of life and duty"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
Hard Pulling Horses.

If as is sometimes the case horse pulls
hard upon the bit it is not desirable to put
in its mouth twisted or other severe bits,
as it only makes the matter worse. A
much better way is to take common bit
and have it covered with stout leather,
and use it in that manner. 1t may take.
little time for horse to get used to it.
He cannot get so strong a hold with his
teeth, and it is not as severe upon the
mouth as curb or twisted bit, and in
little time the animal will be cured of
tugging at the bit, which often m axes it
tiresome drawing.
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Mich Cows.

Ii these be fed upon dry hay it cannot
be expected OF them to give full supplies
OF milk, for without succulent food the
udder cannot, except upon a limited
scale, carry on it's milk secreting opera
tions. In view of these facts every far
mer should make it part of his bust
ness to raise sufficient quantity of beets,
carrots and parsnips to give each milch-
cow on his farm half bushel daily dur
ing the winter and early spring.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
BIRD HELPERS.

Mrs. Mary Treat, the well-known ento-
mologist, writes in the american Agri-
cuIturist for October: 81 wish to add
my testimony in few words in favor of
the various birds that visit our gardens
and orchards, IN the capacity Of helpers
as they feed upon some Of the most nox-
ious insects which we have to contend
with.
First and foremost among these help
ers is the purple martin. 1t Is the gener-
al impression that this bird takes insects
only on the wing, but it does more than
this. saw numbers of them this past
summer, taking the rose-bugs from the
grapevines. They swooped down and
picked them off without alighting. They
circled around in companies back again to
the same vine, each one snatching off a
bug as it passed. And not only the rose
bug falls a victim to its appetite, but it
even stoops to take the Colorado potato
beetle. This has been seen by others IN
our town as well as by myself. Put up
boxes for the martins, and see that the
English sparrow does not get possession.
The oriole is another great helper. 1t
knows how to pull the bag worm from
its case, and does it systematically and
rapidly. The tent caterpillar and fall
web worm it also has a liking for; it
ruthlessly iears the tents and webs to
pieces and destroys untold numbers.
Allow no gunner to shoot one OF these
beautiful gayly dressed birds on your
premises, not even il the lady of your
choice is pining for the skeleton to perch
on her hat. For several years past the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-05
DAVID LlvlNosroNE,s WEE.


Few Americans have any practical ex
perience or knowledge OF the Congo
country, where Henry NJ Stanley pursued
his African explorations. William Cooper,
of West Twenty-second street is one
of the few Americans who has penetrated
that region. He went over there in 1888
on trading expedition and followed the
Congo river 750 miles into the country
from its mouth. Hs.remamed there about
year to exchange lot of beads, accord
cons, mouth-organs, Jews harps and sim.
liar trinkets for the valuable ivory, skins
and similar articles of commerce which
the natives were glad to barter for his
gewgaws. He said the other day that at
the end OF the year he sold his goods in
Liverpool for something like $500
which was almost entirely net profit.
While chatting about Africa Mr.. Cooper
said: "It has always been a wonder to
me that, while the body of David Living.
stone was brought back from that coun-
try to be inferred in G eat Britain with
all the honors that belong to a great ex-
plorer, the remains OF his faithful wife
were left where she died. Mrs. Living
ston was in Africa for something like
twenty years, following her husband
and his fortunes with wonderful faithful.
ness, and deserving rare credit for her
fortitude and fidelity. The English Gov
eminent ought to send for her body, and
place it by the side of her husband."-
N. Y. Tribune